Re: 2.4.10-pre11: alsaplayer skiping during kernel build (-pre10 did not)

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:25:29PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:14:16PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > Hello Andrea,
> > > 
> > > I gave your new vm a try and I have to report a problem. System is an
> > > Athlon 1200 with 256MB memory. Workload:
> > 
> > Sorry to follow up on my own. But the problem seems to be worse than I
> > first thought. Kernel build is the first thing I test when I try a new
> > kernel :-)
> > 
> > So now I logged into X and even during starting of Mozilla or normal
> > web browsing alsaplayer is skiping *lots*. The system is not into swap
> > and has about 150MB cached. Just to let you know ...
> > 
> > I guess I will go back to -pre10 now. If you want to let me test some
> > things just let me know.
> 
> just make sure not to renice top at -10. Are you sure you reniced top at
> -10 also with pre10? Those issues shouldn't really vm related. I also
> profiled the new vm well and it never showed up in the toplist so I
> suspect you changed something in userspace. and of course I run xmms all
> the time too and it didn't skept one sample yet.

Ok, I just killed top. And it still is skiping lots although I do
not have any reniced jobs running. And yes, I had top running reniced
too on -pre10. I will boot -pre10 and check if it is skipping because
alsaplayer is currently skipping as hell (running make -j4 in the
background). Still no swap used. Strange. I will check xmms also and
let you know.

Regards,

   Jogi

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